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A team at the University of Pennsylvania have developed a power-generating backpack. Dubbed “Suspended-load Backpack”, the device converts […]
Among the distinction project (Concept category) of the 51st Annual Design Review is Johnny Applesandal, eco-conscious footwear that […]
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My friend Graham and his team at TreeHugger are running a DIY Eco-Tech contest. You have to come […]
Yesterday I stopped at the Fondazione Bevilacqua in Venice (just behind the pigeon-infested Piazza San Marco) to see […]
Scientists are fighting smog by developing “smart” building materials that clean the air with a little help from […]
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Portable Light, developed by University of Michigan and Kennedy & Violich Architecture, is a series of prototypes which […]
reHOUSE/bath envisions the bathroom as a biotop where nature and mankind interact. BATH is a mobile bathing surface. […]
Kate Deacon works on making smart textiles and sustainability compatible and uses smart technology to generate organic movements […]
Infotropism is a project that explores the use of living material and biomimetic forms in displays, and the […]
Neighbourhood Satellites is one of my favourite projects. Ever. I’ve spammed Myriel Milicevic with messages asking her if […]
Steven Chu sees an America free from foreign oil, powered by home-grown genetically engineered and eco-friendly fuel. The […]
Lina Fenequito ’s Swap-o-Matic is a vending machine that enables people to swap used goods as a means […]
Konarka Technologies will supply the US Army with flexible plastic sheeting that converts light into energy — technology […]
The WEEE Man project, by the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures & Commerce, is a […]
Here’s another IDII thesis project I saw at the Greenhouse Effect show during the Salone del Mobile in […]
Swedish company Parans has found a way to collect sunlight by panels in over 500 lenses, transmit it […]
The Solar Powered Wallpaper merges environmentally conscious design with innovative lighting technology. By embedding electroluminescent materials into the […]
People voluntarily expend quantities of energy working out on cardiovascular machines, many of which plug into the wall. […]
Studio Massaud is working on the Guadalajara football stadium (Mexico) which should be ready by the end of […]
Nuage Vert (Green Cloud) is part of Hehe‘s free research into altering our perception of pollution. Whenever we […]
Seattle architecture/design firm Mithun won first place in the C2C Home Competition with their design for a house […]
La Petite Maison de Weekend by Canadian studio Patkau Architects, is a very compact sustainable cottage for two. […]
The colorful panels that look like books above the entrance of a shopping mall in Nagoya, Japan, are […]
Armed with a glue gun and radio transmitters the size of a penny, scientists at University of North […]
TecEco have developed cement technologies able to transform city streets and buildings into carbon “sinks”, rather than sources. […]
The Styx Valley Protest Structure is a project by Andrew Maynard to attempt to save the Styx Valley […]
Below Tokyo streets, a staffing agency is nurturing an underground and pesticide-free farm. “The six rooms all have […]
New York is testing a trash can that uses solar power to sense when it is full and […]
STATIC! is a project by the Swedish Interactive Institute that revisits the design of everyday things to increase […]
Richard Wool, at the University of Delaware, wants to replace petroleum-based components in circuit boards with chicken feathers. […]
Lois Walpole has developed a way to harvest a willow coat hanger. She grafted the hanger and sawed […]
The results of the MACEF design award are out. Candidates had to design home accessories that work with […]
Green Cycle, by Taiwan-based designers Wei-Ran Lee and Bo-Chin Chu, is a memo paper pad that comes with […]
British design engineer Glynne Bowsher and his team, British Steam Car Challenge, have almost finished building a super-fast […]
Male fish that are growing eggs have been found in the Potomac River (the main source of drinking […]
H-Alpha Solar, a research by a pool of European scientists, is investigating how flexible solar panels can be […]
After NEC’s biodegradable corn-based laptops and Pioneer blue-ray optical disk made of corn starch, Victor (JVC) has developed […]
Scientists at the Toin University in Yokohama have created the “photocapacitor”, a device that can convert solar energy […]
The fabulous Danish art group N55 (the guys of Small Truck) designed three years ago the Snail Shell […]